What's the purpose...

[OH-SHT]

...of the spiral painted in the middle of a commercial jet engine fan??
just curious

[Pub User]

It's to make the spinning part of the engine more visible to nature's aviators, so they don't get their feathers pruned, and we don't damage our compressor blades.

[m&v]

Japan Air started it,to scare birds,and advise groud crew(with earmuffs on)that engine was still turning.

[WenWe]

If you look at it at idle, tends to strobe at you.
Very noticeable & a damn good idea.

[AndrewE]

they should make the whole fan be painted with a spiral!........then again.the ground crew might get hipmotised (spelling?)....

[AndrewE]

they should make the whole fan be painted with a spiral!........then again, the ground crew might get hipmotised lol

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[Localiser]

Hypnotised!

LOC

[QAVION]

"Hypnotised!"

Or in some dictionaries, "hypnotized"

[HAWK19M]

Can the bird react fast enough to avoid the running engine just by looking at the sprial.
regds

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HAWKEYE BALBOUY

[Hew Jampton]

I thought it was to help the engineer/headset person on start up to tell whether the fan was rotating in the correct direction, not windmilling in reverse.

[This message has been edited by Hew Jampton (edited 05 December 2000).]

[WenWe]

Sorry, but we can't see which way the fan's spinning from the crewroom!